Issue 205
Some real hands-on articles and stories from production this week, with a particular emphasis on monitoring alerts and logging best practices. Enjoy! ☕🗻📢
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Articles & News on monitoring.love
Observability & Monitoring Community Slack
It’s amazing to see the community continue to grow. We’d love to have you join us and share what you’ve been working on.
From The Community
Grafana Mimir — our journey towards infinite wisdom with 5m active time series
A fabulously detailed writeup of lovehistory’s migration from Thanos to Mimir (and other considerations along the way). Great story!
6 Best Practices for Effective Monitoring Alerts
I love this topic because alerting has the potential to directly impact our lives in a manner proportionate to the thought and consideration that went into their designs. Practice effective alerting and it will reward your efforts.
Test In Production — The Ideal Monitoring
Not every code path can be tested effectively in development or staging environments. Running tests in production can be an effective monitoring strategy when done right.
Interesting talks on Observability from Fosdem 2023
If you missed this year’s Fosdem, this post has you covered with summaries and links to some of the more interesting monitoring & observability talks.
A collection of best practices and precautions for your logging setup. Many of these fall into the “seems obvious until you catch yourself doing the same thing” category.
MongoDB Atlas & Prometheus Integration
If you’re using MongoDB Atlas, it’s pretty easy to capture those service metrics in your own Grafana and Prometheus cluster. Go share this with your app developers and make their day. 😺
Monitor your Heroku applications with MetricFire
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Distributed Tracing for Message Broker Subscribers
A handy tutorial for setting up tracing with context propagation across your distributed services.
Spotify Engineering Incident Report: Spotify Outage on January 14, 2023
It’s always DNS.
An Overview of Syslog Parsing with Fluentd
A super detailed look at parsing your Syslog messages with Fluentd. Feels like one of those posts that future-you will be glad if today-you remembers to bookmark it.
Prometheus Alerting with AlertManager
A solid guide for setting up Alertmanager to manage your Prometheus alerts.
Events
Monitorama PDX 2023 - June 26-28 (Portland, OR)
We’re really looking forward to this event which marks the ten-year anniversary of Monitorama 2013 originally held in Boston, MA. Proposals are currently being reviewed and if they’re anything to go by, this should be an awesome lineup of talks. Hope to see you there!
See you next week!
– Jason (@obfuscurity) Monitoring Weekly Editor